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Visual impairments affect 60% of adults, 8% of whom suffer from color vision deficiencies. Furthermore, contrast sensitivity decreases with age. Accordingly, teaching and training materials must be adapted to these needs. Thus, a web-moodle course with medical content developed internally was used. The aim was to check whether this course is suitable for people with reduced color contrast sensitivity or color vision deficiencies. Furthermore, the usability was tested. For this purpose, 44 participants answered out a questionnaire. This showed that the preferred learning formats were videos and pictures, with drawn pictures being preferred. For checking knowledge, memory cards and self-checks are the preferred choices. The laptop/PC (66%) clearly emerges as the increasingly preferred end device. The verification of color contrast was done through an open-source website. It can be seen that the color works well only in selected combinations. When reviewing possible difficulties related to color vision deficiencies, some problems came to light. For example, a link with a monochromaticity would not be recognized.
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Langer, S., Balz, A., Nemec, I. (2023). Barrier-Free Dissemination of Medical Knowledge: Challenges and Solutions for Individuals with Visual Impairments. In: Viberg, O., Jivet, I., Muñoz-Merino, P., Perifanou, M., Papathoma, T. (eds) Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures. EC-TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_47
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